U.K. Says Libyan Minister Koussa Has Resigned in London

Muammar Qaddafi’s foreign minister, Moussa Koussa, has quit and flown to London, where he was meeting with British officials, a statement by the U.K. Foreign Office said.

“He traveled here under his own free will,” the statement said. “He has told us that he is resigning his post,” after arriving from Tunisia on March 30. Koussa “is one of the most senior figures in Qaddafi’s government, and his role was to represent the regime internationally -- something that he is no longer willing to do.”